Collapsible support



W. H. HORNER.

COLLAPSIBLE SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 2 4, 1920.

1,369,662. Patented Feb. 22, 1921.

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WILLIAM H. HOBNER, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 22, 1921 Application filed February 24,1920. Serial No. 360,739.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. 'HORNER, a citizen of the United States, and residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collapsible Supports, of which the following is aspecification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which-it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to collapsible supports and particularly to devices of this class designed for use in supporting books of various kinds and classes, and more particularly for supporting books containing or designed to contain reproducible records; and the object of the invention is to provide a device of the class specified which is of such construction that the book may be opened to a predetermined degree and held in such manner that the records therein may be conveniently examined from a position approximately at right angles to the lines of the printed matter on said records; a further object being to provide a support of the class specified which may be collapsed or folded into a compact form forshipping, packing, storing or other purposes when not in use and with these and other objects in view the invention consists in a device of the class specified which is simple in construction and eflicient in operation and comparatively inexpensive, and which is constructed as hereinafter described and claimed. i

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawing forms apart, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is an end view of the device in an extended position and indicating the method of its use;

Fig. 2 a side view of the device looking in the direction of the arrow 2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 a view similar to Fig. 1 but showing the device collapsed; and,

Fig. 4 a partial section on the line 4-4 of F1g.1. 7

My improved support consists of two pairs of legs 5 and 6, which are pivoted together approximatel centrally thereof as shown at 7. Secure to one leg of tllejitll of legs 6, above the pivot 7 is a bracket 8 to which is 'pivoted' an arm 9, having an elongated slot 10, and the adjacent leg of the other pair of legs 5 is provided at a predetermmed point above thepivot at 7 with an lnwardly directed pin 11, which passes through and operates in the elongated slot 10, and by means of this construction the separate pairs of legs 5 and 6 are held aga nst spreading when in their operative or extended position as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Mounted on the upper ends of the sepa rate pairs of legs 5 and 6 is a supporting .table 12, comprising separate side members 13 and 14 hinged together where they abut as shown at 15,- and the back of the side member 13 is pivoted to the upper ends of the pan of legs 5 as shown at '16, while the back of the side member 14 is. pivoted to the upper ends of the pair of legs 6 as shown at 1 The supporting table 12 when in its extended position as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 4 forms an approximately V-shaped recess in which a book is adapted to be placed.

In Fig. 1 of the drawing'I have indicated in dotted lines at 18 abook adapted to contain or hold reproducible records and which is indicated in an open position, and by reason of the shape or formation of the supporting table, it will be seen that the separate leaves of the book, when the latter is open, are held at an angle of approximately ninety-degrees. The book 18 is of a class known as loose'binder books and the leaves may be turned either wayand will normally remain in their open position, and said leaves may serve as holders for the reproducible records or said records may be placed between the leaves of the book, and said records may be easily removed from the book for use and again returned thereto as will be readily understood.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the outward movement of the top portion of the separate pairs of legs 5 and 6 is limited by the slotted arm 9 and the backs of the side portions of the book are pivoted directly to the topsof said pairs of legs, and there is no necessity for the use of any means of adjusting the movement of said pairs of legs or for locking them in any position of adjustment, and when the said pairs of legs are in a fully opened position as shown in Fig. 1 the book 18 will be supported'in such manner that a party standing in a position in line with the plane in which the separate side portions of the book are connected, or parallel with said plane may conveniently examine the printed matter on the records contained in said book, and while my improvement 1s designed p'artlcu larly for supporting books containing reproducible records, it is evident that it may also be used for supporting other books, if

comprising two pairs of pivotally connected legs, a supporting table composed of separate parts hinged together at their abutting edges and to the upper extremities of the separate pairs of legs, and means connected with the separate pairs of legs for limiting the outward movement of their extremities, whereby when the ends of the legs are at the limit of their outward movement, the

" separate parts of the table will be positively held in an upwardly and outwardly inclined position. i i

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in 17th day of February, 1920.

1 WILLIAM H. HORNE R.

presence of the subscribing witnesses this Witnesses:

C. E. MULREANY, H. E. THOMPSON. 

